TEHERAN. 
219 
the dome which surmounted the whole, was composed. A handsome 
chandelier was suspended from the centre, and three fountains of water 
played beneath it. 
On the 15th Mr. Bruce was sent to Bushire to proceed to India. 
The French, in consequence of the Envoy's successful representations, 
were preparing to leave Teheran immediately. Their Embassador, 
General Gardanne, wanted to go to Russia through Georgia; 
but the court of Persia justly fearing in such a quarter the influence of 
that resentment, (which, since the signing of our Preliminary Treaty 
the French had not scrupled to express) refused the permission; and 
the King ordered his son, the Prince Governor of Aderbigian, to give 
the French mission an escort of one hundred men, by the way of Arz - 
roum , and on no account to permit any deviation from that route. 
We went before the King; His Majesty’s conversation was quite 
enlivening. He swore that it was by Him that Buonaparte was 
made the man that he is, and that in the course of the next year he 
would be destroyed. We received His Majesty’s letter to" the King of 
England. It was richly gilt and ornamented with flowers. The seal 
was on a separate piece of paper, and placed at the foot of the letter ; 
according to an old Persian etiquette, when the King addresses an 
equal: when He writes to an inferior, the seal is affixed to the top. 
In composition, Persian critics pronounced this letter perfect; the 
Chief Secretary had been employed in it several days ; and that to the 
Minister for Foreign Affairs was intended to be equally fine, and 
indeed to comprehend all the politics of the world within its pages. 
Under these circumstances, on the night of the 23d, a letter arrived 
from the Governor-General in India, of which it might be improper to 
disclose the contents, further than to remark, that they placed His 
Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary in a situation of peculiar embarrass¬ 
ment, from which nothing but the most friendly disposition in the 
Persian court could have relieved him. It is due to the King of Persia 
himself to add, that He condescended to treat Sir Harford Jones 
on this occasion with the most gratifying evidences of his protection 
f f 2 
